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A teenager involved in a motor vehicle collision with abnormal ECG

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Hopefully a repeat echocardiogram will be performed outpatient. ECG of pneumopericardium and probable myocardial contusion shows typical pericarditis Male in 30's, 2 days after Motor Vehicle Collsion, complains of Chest Pain and Dyspnea Head On Motor Vehicle Collision. 1900: RBBB and LAFB are almost fully resolved.

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A man in his 30s with cardiac arrest and STE on the post-ROSC ECG

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Pendell Meyers and Peter Brooks MD A man in his 30s with no known past medical history was reported to suddenly experience chest pain and shortness of breath at home in front of his family. Chest pain, SOB, Precordial T-wave inversions, and positive troponin. What is the Diagnosis? Now another, with ultrasound.

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A COVID19 vaccine exemption letter

Dr. Anish Koka

He was concerned because he had chest pain after his first mRNA vaccine and was uncomfortable with the risks of a second mRNA dose. It is relevant to note here that as a physician active clinically in both the inpatient and outpatient arenas, I am an eyewitness to the severe toll COVID19 took on my patients in the Spring or 2020.

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Syncope, chest pain, and inferior ST Elevation with Reciprocal ST depression in aVL

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A 26 year old male presented with syncope and chest pain. No signs of OMI" The chest pain resolved after some time, and another ECG was recorded: The ST Elevation is nearly gone. Syncope was sudden and without prodrome, and resulted in head trauma with a scalp laceration. Smith : I recognize this as a STEMI mimic.